Paul G. Swingle, Ph.D. was Professor of Psychology at the University of Ottawa prior to moving to Vancouver. A Fellow of the Canadian psychological Association, Dr. Swingle was Lecturer in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School from 1991 to 1998 and during the same time period was Associate Attending Psychologist at McLean Hospital where he was also Coordinator of the Clinical Psychophysiology Service. Dr. Swingle was Chairman of the Faculty of Child Psychology at Ottawa University from 1972 to 1977 and Clinical Supervisor from 1987 to 1997. He is a Registered Psychologist in British Columbia and is Certified in Biofeedback and neurotherapy.

Methods for potentiating neurotherapy are very useful for clients who have limited capacity to attend for neurofeedback (e.g., autism) and for clients who are at a therapeutic plateau or barrier. Methods include braindriving, CES, AVS, craniosacral therapy, harmonics and energy techniques.

Neurotherapy is rapidly evolving into a primary care option for many disorders. Problems with mood, anxiety, sleep quality, learning, cognitive processing, pain, addictions, anger management, and age related memory are all amenable to rapid assessment and treatment. The assessment procedures are simple and straight forward involving assessment of a limited number of brain sites. Treatment options other than neurofeedback have been developed to markedly accelerate neurotherapy. These complementary techniques markedly facilitate neurotherapy as a viable primary care alternative to dangerous and often ineffective pharmaceuticals.

Emotional trauma is often revealed in the intake QEEG. The pattern is a blunted or absent alpha response. Behavioral consequences of the blunted alpha include poor memory, anxiety conditions and sleep qualitiy problems. Methods for treating trauma with neurotherapy and emotion al release techniques are presented

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Plenary #144): Has your get-up-and-go got up and gone? Gussying up the EEG for us seniors..

The "dental plan" is the term we use in my clinic for twice yearly visits of "seniors" for brfainbrightening. After the QEEG is normalized and the client is gotten of the senilizing drugs periodic visits to make the alpha responses more efficient are scheduled two or three times per year. Home treatments including cranial electrical stimulation, visual stimulation and harmonic sounds to sustain the gains are also prescribed. Details of the procedures are discussed along with case studies.

EEG Foundations Course #118): Identification and control of artifact, Overview of QuickQ, Case exxamples on rapid diagnosis and treatment

A major problem for beginners is the idfentification of artifact and methods for limiting these problems in neurotherapy. Overview of the rapid assessment and diagnosis procedure and review of several adjunctive methods that markedly potentiate neurotherapeutic treatment of many disorders. Case studies showing different distinct patterns found in the QuickQ and therapeutic strategies for rapid treatment of many disorders will be discussed. The use of potentiation techniques for braindriving in neurotherapy will be presented. These techniques are exceptionally useful for clients that lack the capability for volitional neurofeedback protocols. The use of braindriving techniques with HEG as well as EEG for clients such as those with severe autistism who cannot attend to normal neurofeedback will be discussed in case study format.

Workshop #5): Methods for potentiating neurotherapy

Although neurofeedback is the primary therapeutic tool, techniques are available for increasing the efficiency and accelerating the process of modifying brain functioning. Many neurotherapists do provide clients with various adjunctive self-administered treatments to facilitate the therapeutic process. These “add ons” include relaxation exercises, self-hypnosis, energy psychology routines, life style modification recommendations, subliminal affirmation devices, cranial microamperage stimulators, audiovisual stimulators and therapeutic harmonics. The reason for prescribing these procedures, of course, is because they are believed to potentiate the therapeutic process.

The workshop will focus on both self-administered therapeutic aids such as cranial microamperage stimulators, harmonic sounds, audiovisual stimulators, and relaxation exercises as well as braindriving techniques. The latter techniques are rapidly developing methods that allow the treatment of clients with limited capacity to attend to volitional neurofeedback techniques.

Braindriving makes use of stimulation procedures that have known effects on brainwave activity. Such stimuli include sounds, visual stimulation, electrical stimulation of acupuncture points, and electromagnetic stimulation. The technique involves delivering the stimulation contigent on brainwave activity on a fixed reinforcement schedule. Thus, for example, with a condition of excessive theta amplitude, a theta suppressing stimulus can be presented anytime the theta amplitude exceeds a therapist designated threshold. The system is automated and can be autothresholding. This is an extreemly effective technique for treatment of those clients with limited attending capacity or in conditions where tasking (e.g., reading or writing) is involved.

Pre-Conference #4): Neurotherapy as primary care

Neurotherapy is rapidly evolving into a primary care option for many disorders. Problems with mood, anxiety, sleep quality, learning, cognitive processing, pain, addictions, anger management, and age related memory are all amenable to rapid assessment and treatment. The assessment procedures are simple and straight forward involving assessment of a limited number of brain sites. Treatment options other than neurofeedback have been developed to markedly accelerate neurotherapy. These complementary techniques markedly facilitate neurotherapy as a viable primary care alternative to dangerous and often ineffective pharmaceuticals.

The workshop starts with the precise assessment procedures that determine treatment strategies. The combinations of treatment options including neurofeedback, braindriving, AVS, CES, energy psychology methods, craniosacral manipulations, harmonic sounds, electrostimulation, EMF stimulation and behavior therapies appropriate for a wide range of disorders are presented in detail so practitioners can immediately apply these efficient techniques. Conditions that require full QEEG and data base procedures will be identified as will conditions in which the more aggressive treatments are contraindicated.

Materials provided will include detailed procedures for the rapid assessment protocol, site location forms for acupuncture meridians, and procedure sheets for energy routines. Hands-on training for some craniosacral manipulations, acustimulation and energy routines is provided. This workshop is presented in response to many requests from previous participants in shorter workshops for one full day of training in these effective neurotherapeutic techniques.

D. 3:00 – 5:00 PM1. Adjunctive treatment procedures2. Hands on training is some energy techniques3. When you need a Full Q4. Contraindications for adjunctive/aggressive protocols

Plenary #139): Treatment of emotional trauma

When working with Vietnam combat veterans who were beign treated for PTSD I discovered that these veterans had no alpha response. Later when working with clients of all ages and presneting disorders the trauma QEEG signature of absent or blunted alpha was observed in most clients who report an emotional trauma history. The methods for treeating the trauma and dealing with any emotional abreactioons associuated with trauma rfelease i neurotherapy are discussed . Case studies are presented